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Page 1958
... object connected with a sound and constitutional administration of the Government in any of its branches . But there is a consideration of a still more effective and lofty character which is with me entirely decisive of the correctness ...
... object connected with a sound and constitutional administration of the Government in any of its branches . But there is a consideration of a still more effective and lofty character which is with me entirely decisive of the correctness ...
Page 1960
... objects above men- tioned was introduced until recently into the House of Representatives . Should the loan bill now pending before that body pass into a law for its present amount , there would still remain a deficit of $ 2,500,000 ...
... objects above men- tioned was introduced until recently into the House of Representatives . Should the loan bill now pending before that body pass into a law for its present amount , there would still remain a deficit of $ 2,500,000 ...
Page 1962
... object first and highest in importance is to establish the credit of this Government and to place it on durable foundations , and thus afford the most effectual support to the credit of the States , equal at least to what it would ...
... object first and highest in importance is to establish the credit of this Government and to place it on durable foundations , and thus afford the most effectual support to the credit of the States , equal at least to what it would ...
Page 1964
... object I have thus frankly expressed to Congress under circumstances which give to the entire subject a peculiar and solemn interest . The Executive can do no more . If the credit of the country be exposed to question , if the public ...
... object I have thus frankly expressed to Congress under circumstances which give to the entire subject a peculiar and solemn interest . The Executive can do no more . If the credit of the country be exposed to question , if the public ...
Page 1969
... object of encroachment on the United States and the enlargement of his native Province at the expense of Canada , signally failed in the proof of either of his positions . The knowledge now acquired shows that the idea of Colonel ...
... object of encroachment on the United States and the enlargement of his native Province at the expense of Canada , signally failed in the proof of either of his positions . The knowledge now acquired shows that the idea of Colonel ...
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Page 1979 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 1980 - Lawrence : comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy, and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said Province of Nova Scotia.